Internet Cat Video Film Festival Is Purr-fectly Successful

There is little doubt that internet cat videos are a popular phenomenon. People watch them over and over and share them with friends on social networks and YouTube. Thanks to the prestigious Walker Art Center in Minneapolis, cat videos became a contemporary art form when the gallery held the first-ever Internet Cat Video Film Festival. Organizers of the festival wanted to discover if watching cat videos on a big screen with people all around would give cat lovers the same enjoyable experience as seeing them privately in their own homes. The answer was a resounding yes. An estimated 10,000 people attended the outdoor evening event. People could be heard blocks away laughing and applauding for their favorite cat antics. The festival placed the videos into categories for comedy, drama, foreign, animated, musical, art-house and documentary. Participants voted for the most popu...